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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and access management are at the heart of Microsoft's software as service products, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is crucial to master Microsoft Azure in order to be able to work with the Microsoft Cloud effectively. You’ll begin by identifying the benefits of Microsoft Azure in the field of identity and access management. Working through the functionality of identity and access management as a service, you will get a full overview of the Microsoft strategy. Understanding identity synchronization will help you to provide a well-managed identity. Project scenarios and examples will enable you to understand, troubleshoot, and develop on essential authentication protocols and publishing scenarios. Finally, you will acquire a thorough understanding of Microsoft Information protection technologies.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Azure Information Protection key basics


The Azure Rights Management Service (RMS) is part of the AIP solution of Microsoft. The Rights Management web service provides protection functionality, including administration, account certification, and licensing. Certification refers to the account certification and activation activities performed by Azure RMS. Each user must acquire a set of certificates and associated keys to be able to participate. Licensing refers to the set of operations by which Azure RMS grants access to protected content to authorized users. The Azure RMS service grants a use license (usage rights) for each document to authorized users.

Note

The Azure RMS service exposes Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) interfaces that are used by clients to interact with Azure RMS

The Azure Rights Management web service also uses rights management templates, which specify a predefined set of rights and conditions that can be applied to protect content. In AIP, the rights-management templates...